new Regex(pattern);//Creates a new instance with a defined pattern.
Regex.Match(input);//Starts the lookup and returns the Match.
Regex.Matches(input);//Starts the lookup and returns a MatchCollection
|RegexOptions [Optional]||The common options in here are |
|Timeout [Optional]||Where patterns are getting more complex the lookup can consume more time. This is the passed timeout for the lookup just as known from network-programming.|
Nice to have
Especially beginners are tended to overkill their tasks with regex because it feels powerful and in the right place for complexer text-based lookups. This is the point where people try to parse xml-documents with regex without even asking theirselfes if there could be an already finished class for this task like
Regex should be the last weapon to pick agains complexity. At least dont forget putting in some effort to search for the
right way before writing down 20 lines of patterns.